Member Profiles

Check out the Neighbourhood Arts Network membership! Connect with an array of artists, community leaders and vibrant arts organizations shaping Toronto cultural landscape!

• Mixed Company Theatre

  

  Mixed Company Theatre produces innovative, socially relevant drama as a tool for positive change. Founded as an artist-run collective in 1983, Mixed Company today uses Forum Theatre and inte...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, , , Theatre

• Lucy Slavianska

  

  An artist, writer and journalist, Lucy Slavianska has visited more than 35 countries and lived in Canada, the Netherlands, Venezuela, Japan and Bulgaria. Her art is inspired by her experienc...

  Disciplines: , Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Andrea Wrobel

  

  In under fifty words and in accordance to the (approximate) alphabet, Andrea Wrobel is ambitious, but careful; a definitive, early filmmaker genius. Ha! I'm joking... Kind, like most "normal...

  Disciplines: , , Visual & Media Arts, Community Arts, Literary, 

• Coalition Creole Ontario

  

  CCO’s objective is to promote the Creole culture, integration, as well as social and professional development of the Creole living in Toronto.

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, , Festival, , Music, , , , Visual & Media Arts

• Toronto School of Art

  

  The Toronto School of Art fosters the inherent capabilities of its students through an education model that revolves around artists teaching artists to help them make their mark. WHAT WE’...

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts, , 

• IX Gallery and Event Space

  

  Located in charming Leslieville, the IX Gallery exhibits a variety of local and international artists, on rotation year-round. Colourgenics also sponsors an ongoing Technology Showcase: an...

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts, Community Arts, Festival, , , 

• Bahar

  

  I have done lots of various art works also have thought students how to make creative meaningful artworks. I graduated in architecture and was member of poem society and I would like to join...

  Disciplines: , Literary, Music, , , Theatre, Visual & Media Arts

• Theatre Ontario

  Theatre Ontario develops and supports theatre practitioners across the province, by providing resources, networking, training and advocacy.

  Disciplines: Community Arts, , , , , Theatre

• Mahboubeh Honarian

  

  A professional media artist and documentary filmmaker from Iran. Mahboubeh has also been active internationally in a variety of social/cultural activities. With the aim of bringing together ...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, , Festival, , , , Visual & Media Arts

• mosa mc neilly

  

  Mosa is a visual artist, performer, researcher and educator. She is currently a graduate student completing her major research portfolio working with themes of black radical imagination, mid...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, , , , Visual & Media Arts

• Oriah Scott

  

  Why information, why not ask, inquire, question. Paint, travel, feel, experience. love. be true.

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts, Dance, Community Arts, Literary, Festival, , , , 

• KINGSLEY OMOREFE IYAMU

  

  KINGSLEY OMOREFE IYAMU – Efe Iyamu is an Artist from Edo State, Southwest of Nigeria. A graduate of the prestigious Auchi Polytechnic in Nigeria, studied Art Education 1986 /1990. with an up...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, , Festival, , , , Visual & Media Arts

• Alex Usquiano

  

  Alex Usquiano is a Toronto based visual artist who integrates different techniques to his exploration of new and contemporary languages of Art. Alex has more than fifteen (15) years working ...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, , , , Visual & Media Arts

• Katya Kuznetsova

  

  My work as a dance teacher and choreographer is to create ways for people to move - physically, emotionally, and creatively. This task, in my experience, requires deep listening and continuo...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, , 

• Canadian Stage

  

  Founded in 1987, Canadian Stage is one of the country’s leading not-for-profit contemporary theatre companies.

  Disciplines: Dance, Music, , , Theatre

• Sarvenaz

  

  For me creating art is always about telling a story. I like to paint moments that are like film stills. Those moments are mostly about identity of an artist, an individual. The environme...

  Disciplines: , Visual & Media Arts

• Project 40 Collective

  

  We're a collective of Asian Artists who do collaborative art together because we believe when we explore the truths we hold inside us with each other, we create art that is devastatingly hon...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, , 

• Olya Glotka

  I am a dancer but my biggest passion in life is to inspire others!

  Disciplines: Community Arts, Dance, 

• Area51Toronto

  

  Area51Toronto Creative Studios houses artists of all mediums. We have a large spray booth and a 400sqft temporary rental space available for daily, weekly or monthly rental with large loadi...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, , , Visual & Media Arts

• Neilson Park Creative Centre

  

  Neilson Park Creative Centre is a not-for-profit organization. Incorporated in 1991, we are managed by a volunteer based Board of Directors and a paid staff. -We hold camps, classes, semi...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, , , , Visual & Media Arts

• Mohammadreza sabokro

  

  I have graduated in visual art in my home country Iran and I have a background of 20 year of experience in graphic art and painting. Exhibition in Canada 2015 Arta Gallery / Group...

  Disciplines: , , Visual & Media Arts

• Deniz Basar

  

  My central interest is the creation of public spheres through various forms of radical, non-institutionalized performative acts and community building processes, which keeps a potential o...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, , Theatre

• Community Story Strategies

  

  Community Story Strategies offers media and storytelling services to enhance community building efforts. We collaborate with non-profits, museums, schools, and health centres to design and d...

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts, Community Arts, 

• TEMPLE STUDIO of FINE ART and DANCE REBECCA MARIE BACHAR IDMA DIRECTOR

  

  New York trained, Rebecca Bachar I.D.M.A is a Performer Teacher Choreographer Lecturer & Dance Historian of Isadora Duncan Dance and Movement studies, and Vedic Yoga has 50yrs dance experi...

  Disciplines: , Dance, , Festival, , Music, 

• Dearcara

  Much of my work questions the way we communicate with functioning objects in a space, at a certain time. It questions how the function and semiotics of an object are transformed through the ...

  Disciplines: , , Visual & Media Arts

• Isabel Mazzotta

  I am a visual artist, origami artist, face painter and artisan.

  Disciplines: , Community Arts, Festival, Visual & Media Arts

• Camille Lauren

  

  I am an Artrepreneur drawn in deeply to the storyscapes found in music, within a conversation, and by looking deeply into someone's eyes. I am Toronto-based Visual Artist studying Illustrati...

  Disciplines: , Community Arts, Visual & Media Arts

• Paperhouse Studio

  

  Equipped with some cast iron and a whole lot of love, Paperhouse Studio opened in 2013. We are artists rooted in paper and print media, sharing and exploring these versatile mediums with inn...

  Disciplines: Visual & Media Arts, Community Arts, , 

• Youth Action Network

  

  Education Coordinator for the Youth Action Network, my work is to promote workshops, educationals, seminars to youth in diverse communities as well as link these workshops to other community...

  Disciplines: Community Arts, , Literary, , , , Visual & Media Arts

• Dustin Roy Madahbee

  

  Native artist from Manitoulin Island looking to get involved in the art community in Toronto. Self taught or trained over six years in acrylics, work with wood burning art too. I paint sunse...

  Disciplines: Music, , , Visual & Media Arts